Quotes About Meditation

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

He had no need to push the everyday world away from him. He just stepped out of it whenever he wished.

We can see the mind as a lotus. Some lotuses are still stuck in the mud, some have climbed above the mud but are still underwater, some have reached the surface, while others are open in the sun, stain-free. Which lotus do you choose to be? If you find yourself below the surface, watch out for the bites of fishes and turtles.

U re u re na-nam Gi re gi re na-nam Mu re mu re na-nam

Why do you stay here? What's here, Rory? Peace, quiet, birds. Lots of birds.

As Alda floated on the surface, the sky overhead reminded her of the deep blue the artist Giotto used on the ceiling of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Write what I tell you in your book of memory.

In the good days remember also death.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

Strengthening the mind is not done by making it move around as is done to strengthen the body, but by bringing the mind to a halt, bringing it to rest.

Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be.

Only when the mind sees for itself, can it uproot and relinquish attachment.

The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die in order to live. What does that mean? To die is to come to the end of our doubts, all our questions, and just be here with the present reality. You can never die tomorrow; you must die now. Can you do it? If you can do it, you will know the peace of no more questions.

First you understand the Dhamma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practice it. And if you practice it, you will begin to see it, you are the Dhamma and you have the joy of the Buddha.

How does the Dhamma teach the proper way of life? It shows us how to live. It has many ways of showing it - on rocks or trees or just in front of you. It is a teaching but not in words. So still the mind, the heart, and learn to watch. You'll find the whole Dhamma revealing itself here and now. At what other time and place are you going to look?

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

prayer is when night descends over thought

n'allez pas trop vite.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.